Instances›AWS EC2›i7ie›i7ie.metal-24xl
Compute
vCPUs96
Memory768 GiB
Mem / vCPU8.00 GiB
ProcessorXeon Scalable
Clock speed3.2 GHz
Architecturex86_64
Storage
Type8 × 7,500 GB NVMe SSD
Bandwidth30,000 Mbps
Throughput3750 MB/s
IOPS120,000
Networking
Performance100 Gigabit
Max ENIs15
IPv6Yes
GPUNone
Family sizes
i7ie.large2 vCPU · 16 GiB
i7ie.xlarge4 vCPU · 32 GiB
i7ie.2xlarge8 vCPU · 64 GiB
i7ie.3xlarge12 vCPU · 96 GiB
i7ie.6xlarge24 vCPU · 192 GiB
i7ie.12xlarge48 vCPU · 384 GiB
i7ie.18xlarge72 vCPU · 576 GiB
i7ie.24xlarge96 vCPU · 768 GiB
i7ie.metal-24xl96 vCPU · 768 GiB
i7ie.48xlarge192 vCPU · 1536 GiB
i7ie.metal-48xl192 vCPU · 1536 GiB
i7ie.metal-24xl

The i7ie.metal-24xl is a storage-optimized AWS EC2 instance: 96 vCPU and 768 GiB of memory, 8.00 GiB per vCPU. In the name, "i" is I/O, meaning local storage, "7" is the generation, "ie" marks Intel processors and extended capacity and "metal-24xl" is the size within the i7ie family. It runs on Intel Xeon Scalable (Emerald Rapids) at 3.2 GHz, and AWS introduced it in April 2025. AWS has since shipped i8g; i8g.metal-24xl is the direct replacement at this size, scoring 3,072,246 CoreMark/s against this instance's 2,124,521 — roughly 45% more throughput for the same vCPU count. No single Spot node covers 96 vCPU and 768 GiB, so the equivalent is a fleet: 6 × mh.vs1.2xlarge, 96 vCPU and 768 GiB in total, $12.48/hr on AWS in US East (N. Virginia), from $0.126/hr on Rackspace Spot. Spot delivers compute as managed Kubernetes, so a node pool of that size is the native shape of the answer rather than a workaround — provided the workload scales horizontally.

Match qualityVirtualised, not bare metal

i7ie.metal-24xl is a full physical server — no virtualisation layer in the way, direct access to the hardware, and a socket count that licensing can verify.

Rackspace Spot no longer sells bare metal; everything in the catalog is a virtual machine. You get the same cores and memory (6 × mh.vs1.2xlarge, 96 vCPU, 768 GiB), but not the dedicated hardware. If you picked i7ie.metal-24xl because you needed the real machine — nested virtualisation, per-socket licensing, low-level profiling — this is not a replacement at any price. If you picked it because it is the biggest i7ie, it is the same compute for a lot less.

Runs as a fleetNo single Spot node has 96 vCPU; the largest comparable one has 16. So this runs as 6 nodes. That works if your workload already spreads across machines, and doesn't if one process needs all the cores together.
No local diski7ie.metal-24xl comes with 8 × 7,500 GB NVMe SSD attached to the machine. Spot nodes use network storage only, so that disk doesn't come with it. If you were using it as fast scratch space, you'd move to a persistent volume or object storage, which are slower to read.
Pricing by region
1 hr
RegionAWS on-demandAWS Spot1-yr Reserved3-yr ReservedRackspace SpotYou save
US East, N. Virginia$12.475$1.769$0.126
$12.349 savings
US Central, Chicagono AWS region$0.126
US Central, Dallasno AWS region$0.786
Hong Kong$16.467$0.126
$16.341 savings
Sydney, Australia$14.959$1.496$0.126
$14.833 savings
London, UK$14.518$1.516$0.786
$13.732 savings
US West, San Jose$13.800$1.901$0.012
$13.788 savings
US Central, Dallas 2no AWS region$1.452
When to use it
Good for
  • ●Streaming ingest that spools to local disk
  • ●Elasticsearch and OpenSearch data nodes
  • ●NoSQL stores such as Cassandra, ScyllaDB and MongoDB
  • ●Workloads that fit inside 768 GiB of RAM
  • ●Jobs that want 8 × 7,500 GB of local NVMe scratch space
  • ●Network-heavy services — AWS rates this size at 100 Gigabit
  • ●Anything that shards cleanly across 6 nodes, which is how it maps onto Rackspace Spot
Avoid if
  • ●The working set needs more than 768 GiB of RAM
  • ●You need dedicated hardware. Rackspace Spot sells virtualised compute only.
  • ●The work is single-threaded. Most of these 96 vCPU would sit idle.
  • ●GPU or FPGA acceleration is needed
  • ●Workloads that never touch local disk. The instance-store premium is wasted.
  • ●More than 8.00 GiB of RAM per vCPU is needed — that ratio is fixed for the whole family
$9,107/mo on AWS on-demand against $92/mo on Rackspace Spot for the 6-node equivalent — market-priced, not list-priced.
  • Spot sells spare capacity at market prices. It is the cheapest compute on the internet.
  • Prices are set by supply and demand. You pay what the market decides.
  • Compute is delivered as fully managed Kubernetes. All infrastructure is taken care of.
  • Egress costs $0.01/GB after the free allowance. AWS charges $0.09/GB.
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